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View article: Transforming Math Anxiety into Engagement: The Impact of RPG-Based Gamification on Middle School Students
Transforming Math Anxiety into Engagement: The Impact of RPG-Based Gamification on Middle School Students Open
In both classroom settings and everyday life, it is common to encounter phrases such as "Math is not for me," "I'm not good at scientific subjects," "I can't do it," "I don't understand anything," "What's the use?", and "I've always had ba…
View article: Railway Quest: A Gamified Teaching Platform for Concurrent and Parallel Programming
Railway Quest: A Gamified Teaching Platform for Concurrent and Parallel Programming Open
Teaching concurrent and parallel programming presents substantial challenges, primarily due to its conceptual complexity and the required paradigm shift from sequential programming. Railway Quest is a gamified digital platform designed to …
View article: From Consoles to Classrooms: Preliminary Insights About Pre-Service Teachers and Video Games
From Consoles to Classrooms: Preliminary Insights About Pre-Service Teachers and Video Games Open
Integrating video games into the classroom is a promising way to enhance learning experiences, as the market of serious games is expanding. European schools are investing in digital equipment, and the use of educational video games is tech…
View article: Crucial and fragile: a multi-methods and multi-disciplinary study of cooperation in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic
Crucial and fragile: a multi-methods and multi-disciplinary study of cooperation in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic Open
In addressing global pandemics, robust cooperation across nations, institutions, and individuals is paramount. However, navigating the complexities of individual versus collective interests, diverse group objectives, and varying societal n…
View article: UnlockArt: Cultural Mediation at the Museum Through an Augmented Reality Escape Room
UnlockArt: Cultural Mediation at the Museum Through an Augmented Reality Escape Room Open
In the context of a museum, cultural mediation facilitates access to the works of art for the visitors which not always share the culture the pieces of art come from. Tools and resources such as catalogs, guided tours, or the work of the c…
View article: How is computational thinking assessed in European K-12 education? A systematic review
How is computational thinking assessed in European K-12 education? A systematic review Open
Computational thinking (CT) is seen as a key competence of the 21st century and different countries have started to integrate it into their compulsory school curricula. However, there exist only few indications on how to assess CT in compu…
View article: Let's Jazz: a Case Study on Teaching Music with Educational Escape Rooms
Let's Jazz: a Case Study on Teaching Music with Educational Escape Rooms Open
Escape rooms have been proven to be a functional game-based approach to teach a variety of subjects. Teachers as well as students are eager to play escape rooms in the classroom; field studies have demonstrated how escape games are a memor…
View article: Human Data Model
Human Data Model Open
Today, an increasing number of systems produce, process, and store personal and intimate data. Such data has plenty of potential for entirely new types of software applications, as well as for improving old applications, particularly in th…
View article: Designing educational escape rooms: validating the Star Model
Designing educational escape rooms: validating the Star Model Open
Escape games have become popular nowadays. Groups of people are locked inside riddles-filled rooms and have to work their way out finding clues and solving puzzles. While being fun for groups or team building, escape games have a great edu…
View article: Tuning Browser-to-Browser Offloading for Heterogeneous Stream Processing Web Applications
Tuning Browser-to-Browser Offloading for Heterogeneous Stream Processing Web Applications Open
Software that runs on the Cloud may be offloaded to clients to ease the computational effort on the server side, while clients may as well offload computations back to the cloud or to other clients if it becomes too taxing on their machine…
View article: Decentralized Stream Processing Over Web-Enabled Devices
Decentralized Stream Processing Over Web-Enabled Devices Open